Guide in and around the campus

April 25, 2007

Here are some of the most notable places in and around the campus:

~ Eating:

- Cafeteria / Restaurant [Rainbow]: here, you can eat a variety of
dishes [both Japanese and international] for a relatively low price. Open:
9.10 ~ 20.30 [weekdays]; 11.30 ~ 13.30 [vacations]
- Cafeteria [Satia]: Open: 11.00 ~ 19.00 [weekdays]
- Convenience store [Cherie]: here, you can find bread [which is quite
rare in Japan], sweets, yogurt, hamburgers etc. Open: 8.30 ~ 20.30 [weekdays]
- Other sellers: during weekdays, there are a number of vendors who sell
‘obento’s [lunch boxes]; these obentos generally contain rice, sauce, tofu [soy
cheese], eggs etc.

~ Shopping:

- Travel bureau, Bookshop, Stationery shop [Shanty]:
here, you can find a variety of goods and services, including booking airplane
tickets, shinkansen tickets, bus tickets etc., postal stamps, telephone cards,
books [course books, dictionaries, novels etc.], CDs, USB memory sticks, memory
cards, plug adapters, computer mice, notebooks, writing instruments etc.
Open: 10.30 ~ 20.00 [weekdays]
- Garden Mall: this complex is located at about ten minutes of
walking from the campus and has just about everything you could need [except
clothes and electronics]: food stores, convenience stores, a hair saloon,
several restaurants, a bookshop etc. Most students do their shopping here.
- Seven-Eleven: a good place to buy magazines, drinks [also alcoholic
drinks] and food. Open non-stop.
- Family Mart: same as the Seven-Eleven, but a bit farther from the
campus; here, you can find Brastel phone cards, which are really cheap if you
want to make international phone calls. Open non-stop.

~ University facilities

- Computer room: here, you can access the Internet, work on
projects, make xerox copies and prints. Open ・9.40 ~ 20.40 [ weekdays];
12-40 ~ 18.20 [school vacations]
Note: You need a student ID card to use this facility. Student ID cards are
usually ready within one week from arrival.
- Wireless network rooms: here, you can use the campus wireless
service for free. Make sure your laptop computer has a wireless modem installed.
Within a few days from arrival, you will be assigned a user name and a password
and you will be given a guidebook on how to set up your wireless connection.
- Video and DVD library: Open ・9.00 ~ 21.00 [weekdays]; 10.00 ~ 16.00
[Saturdays and holidays]
Note: You need a student ID card to use this facility. Videos and
DVDs cannot be taken outside the library.
- Library: You can borrow five books at once for mostly three weeks.
You can borrow magazines mostly one week. You cannot borrow some books, but you
are allowed to make photocopies. Open ・9.00 ~ 21.00 [weekdays]; 10.00 ~
16.00 [Saturdays and holidays]
Note: You need a student ID card to use this facility.
- University medical center: Open: 10.00 ~ 16.00 [weekdays]

~ Transportation

1. Bus stop: Oosaka Gaidai Mae
Available destinations: Onohara, Kita-Senri, Senri-Chuo. Does not operate
when classes are closed, on Saturdays and on holidays.

2. Bus stop: Madani Jutaku 4
Available destinations: Onohara, Kita-Senri, Senri-Chuo, Minoo City Hall

3. Monorail station: Saito Nishi
Available destinations: Bampaku Kinen-Koen [amusement park], Kita-Senri [you
can take the subway from here], Senri-Chuo [you can also take the subway from
here to downtown Oosaka, where most of the fun stuff is].